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Scrapstore in desperate search
Mansfield Begbie Swindon Scrapstore could be without a home in August when the
Pinehurst People’s Centre is demolished to make way for the town’s
Associates Ltd education academy which will replace Headlands School.
For 21 years the charity has collected waste office material and
factory offcuts and made it available for art and craft activities at
Providing mortgage services for the community since 1987 schools, under 5s groups and youth clubs. But without a base to display
the items for member organisations, the future looks bleak.
Scrapstore manager Olivia McCann said she was discussing long term
options with other recycling groups, but the immediate need is for premises
MARCH over the next six to twelve months. “It’s really important we stay open; to
close then try to restart will be very difficult. We need a couple of spare
classrooms or a business unit by early summer. Please call with offers.”
IS A 9023290.
If you can help Scrapstore on a temporary basis, call Olivia on 0773
GOOD TIME Water to flow in the canal between

FOR A North and West Swindon soon
Volunteers needed to help make it happen
MORTGAGE By Easter there will be water again in the section of the North Wilts
canal under Purton Road Bridge at the end of Thamesdown Drive, say
members of the Wilts and Berks Canal Trust.
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Whether you’re planning to move to a new house
or to remortgage your property,
with over 19 years experience providing mortgages Canal trust members reviewing the work at Purton Road Bridge, branch chairman
in Swindon, Mansfield Begbie Associates Roy Cartwright, centre, with trust members Janet Flanagan and Ray Aldridge
aim to provide an excellent and personal service. Work started in early February Planning permission has been
on a £130,000 project to build ‘wing submitted to renovate the canal
walls’ where the canal goes under and steam railway, and to build
There may be a fee payable at completion for placing the bridge which was completed new cycle and foot ways between
your mortgage. The precise amount will depend in 2002. Because of the curve in the Swindon and Cricklade. A £15
on your circumstances but the maximum will be £300. road and the angle of the bridge million lottery bid will be submit-
over 5,000 tons of earth has to be ted in May to pay for the project.
However, no completion no fee. removed from Moulden Hill to cre- Roy Cartwright, chairman of the
ate enough room for a 70 foot canal canal trust Swindon branch, said,
Mansfield Begbie Associates arranges mortgages with boat to pass underneath - one day. “although the Purton Road Bridge
the majority of building societies and banks in the UK Funding for the work comes section is not part of the Cricklade
from Crapper Waste landfill tax Country Way, the canal will be a
For free mortgage consultation and credits. Once contractors have major link into it.”
further information, call us now. completed the work in March, trust Volunteers will be working on
Your home may be repossessed if you volunteers will be dredging the the site every weekend through-
do not keep up repayments on your mortgage canal of vegetation, stopping up out the summer. More help is
leaks and pumping water into the needed. For details call Roy on
800 metres closest to the road. 634907.
Swindon renovating nearly a www.wbct.org.uk
They will then start work on
mile of canal to the
772779 River Ray aquaduct
on the far side of
Moulden Hill, which
e: [email protected] will join with the
Cricklade Country
www.mansfieldbegbie.co.uk Way scheme.
Mansfield Begbie Associates Limited is an appointed representative of An impression of how
Legal & General Partnership Services Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Purton Road Bridge canal
Financial Services Authority for advising on and arranging mortgages and insurance and footpath might look
when in full operation

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